Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-07-08

Pullman, Wash, Ter. Loss, ST5, 900 ia
$50, 900; insurance about two-t thirds.
At Jeffersony vile, Ind, Miss Sarah j..
Aldrich, a young lady ninteen years Of age, re-
ceiyed a pisto shotin the head from which
she has dies. George Jetle her sutton, who
was calling on her at The time, claims that
she committed suicide.
C. II. Pratt's lumber mill at Prattsburg,
on the Omaha line 40 miles south Of Ash
land was burned. Loss estimated 500
600 to $4,000; insurance 81, 500 in ST,
Paul and Minneapolis. ss.s
At Alpine, Mich, Sheriff Lynch and
posse arrested three desperadoes for whom
reward OF $4,000 is said to be offered.
They are wanted in Ravenna Ohio. Sheriff
Lynch was shot in the leg, but not danger
ously wounded. One Of the prisoners tried
to commit suicide soon after being captur.
ed. .'"# @s..'..-s
David Armstrong, OF jackson, Ohio, has
been selected for receiver OF the Fidelity
bank of Cincinnati. Mr.. Armstrong now
holds the position OF cashier of the First
Nationel Bank of jackson. l,es.:
. Gen. F. William Smith, thirty-fiye years
OF age, general passenger agent OF the
Grand Trunk railroad, died suddenly
While sitting at his desk in his Office in
New York. . 49,:
W. Fl. Hoard, pastor OF Mt. Zion NJ. e.
church OF Charleston, S. c., complains to
the Interstate commission: He and sew
eral members OF his congregation, having
purchased first class tickets over the
Georgia railroad from Atlanta to Charles.
ton, were forbidden entry to the first. class
coaches and compelled to ride in dirty
and uncomfortable car, one-half ot,which
was q smoking Car.
Milton Evans OF Walla Walla, Wash,
complains to the commission of the Ore
gon Railway and Navigation company for
charging 80 cents per loop ounds on wheat
from Walla Walla to Portland, which rate
he thinks extortionate.
Trouble among the original settlers of
the Maxwell land grant is brewing and q
call for an armed resistance has been pub.
lished in Ration, N. NJ.
Lieutenant and Acting Governor Smith,
OF Illinois, left Chicago without signing the
pleuro-pneumonia and other bills left by
Gov. Oglesby, and they will become laws
without executive approval.
The Genesta has won the Jubilee yatch
race. Her time over the course was IL
days l6 hours and 81 minutes.
A match race between the Thistle and
Trek was sailed over the Northern Watch
club course. The Thistle took the lead at
31z minutes ahead OF her opponent.
The eighth annual iour-mile straight
away race between eight-oared crews rep.
resenting Harvard university and Column
bia college was rowed on the Thames river
at New London course from Gates river to
Winthrop Point, and proved to be one OF
the most holly contested races ever rowed,
both crews beating the record of 20 min
utes and 81 seconds, made by Yale in 1 eS4.
The replies OF the Manitoba and Omaha
and other Northwestern railroads in the
Indemnity withdrawal matter are made
public.
Myron Brown, a. we'll known St. Paul
man, falls dead in the Nicollet no use, Min
neapolis.
The Iowa supreme court decides that
city has no right to grant the exclusive
use Of its streets to railroad company.
The Cornell university trustees have
sold the pine on %, 600 acres of land in
Ashland county, Wis, securing a good
sum for the university,
The annual sale of Erdenheim and Elless-
lie and other yearlings, the property OF n.
W. kittson, and J. r. Hancock, took place
in New York. Many prominent sporting
men were present, but the prices obtained
were not very heavy. Fifty-eight youngs-
ter's in all were sold.
Richard K. Fox has received telegram
from the editor OF the Sporting Life OF
London in behalf OF Jem Smith, accepting
Jake Williams challenge to fight Tor the
championship OF the world. He names
the continent as the battle ground and
$4,000 a side as the stakes, with $500 as
expenses.
The uprising of the Apaches in Arizona
terminates in the surrender OF the hostile
band.
Patrick Ford says there is no truth in
the report that the Vatican was to inyesti~
gate the condition OF the Irish people.
Ex-Gov. Ansou P. Morrill, suffered par.
tial stroke OF paralysis at Augusta. Me-,
while driving in a carriage. He is able to
move his limbs and converse and his ply
sicians have hopes that he will recover.
He is 81 years old.
Secretary Endicott has returned to his
duties, and his acts, as we'll us his words,
make it clear that be has no intention of
retiring from the cabinet. Mr.. Endicott
has undoubtedly performed the duties Of
his office to the satisfaction OF the pres;
dent.
The executive committee of the Cornell
university trustees completed and for
warded O contract disposing OF the pine
timber on about twenty-five thousand
acres OF land in the Penokee Group, Ash
land county, Wis. The amount received
for this timber is over half million dol
lars, and the university will now have the
income from that very handsome sum.
The university still owns the land from
which the timber is to be cut. 1t is full OF
iron and very valuable.
Rev. DR.. Edward McGlynn intends to
become q Knight of Labor and to work,
hereafter in the interest of that organiza-
ton part OF his time at least, with a
view OF disseminating his land theories,
The Northwestern Indian commission,
which since last August, has been visiting
the various tribes OF the Northwest with
the view of securing their settlement on
lands in several and the reduction of the
81 bands in MINES sofa, Montana, Idaho
and Washington, and travelled over TO-
900 miles by rail, 500 in wagons, 400 in
canoes and 1000 in sleighs. They reached
aa..ements with q bands and obtained
cessions OF more than 5000, 900 acres OF
land valuable for timber metals and agri.
cultural uses. The commission was not
able to induce the Bots Fort Chippewas to
remove from Nett Lake, Wis, to either the
White Earth reservation in Minnesota or
any OF the Wisconsin agencies. The In
dams claimed that the former treaty slip
ulations had not been kept, that the whites
were making big money out of their lands
which were rich in ore, and that they were
well clothed and fed now and didn't wish
to move at all. No better success was
reached with the 800 Chippewas at Grand
Marais. .--
The queen, in commemoration other jubi-
lee, gave golu medals to her royal visitors
and silver medals to their attendants.
Ralph Beaumont OF Elmira, N. Y, is
prominently mentioned as a candidate for
general master workman, knights OF La
Dor, in the event OF Powderly's declining
to serve another term. sr4 -s;,-. ~, (.
Miss Eugenia Ozanne Of Denver, COL, is
said to be the most beautiful woman in
the west. She is OF Mexican parentage,